# 3 Best Free Voting Software | Capterra > Looking for free voting software? Discover the top three free voting solutions that offer ballot and voter management in order to conduct virtual polls securely. Source: https://www.capterra.com/resources/best-free-voting-software --- Strategy & OperationsGovernment # 3 Best Free Voting Software By Barkha Bali Barkha Bali Senior Writer Experience I’ve been writing for Capterra since August 2021, providing expert insights to help small and midsize businesses (SMBs) find the rig... [See bio & all articles](https://www.capterra.com/resources/author/bbali/) Published December 1, 2022 6 min read ## Voting software helps manage elections and conduct secure virtual voting. Conducting convenient, auditable elections while preventing the hacking and manipulation of votes is crucial for business administrators. There are many voting tools that help manage elections and conduct secure virtual voting, but that type of investment can be expensive. This is where free voting software comes in handy. [Voting software](https://www.capterra.com/voting-software/) allows organizations to remotely manage elections, and voters can cast ballots from any location and device. These tools also help election administrators register candidate profiles, create customized ballots, track and report the number of votes, authenticate voters, and visualize results. This article lists (alphabetically) the top three free voting software based on user reviews and ratings. ([Read how we selected these products.](#methodology)) Check out the complete list of the best voting tools in Capterra’s software directory. [](https://www.capterra.com/voting-software/) ## 1\. ElectionBuddy: Secure voter’s identity with 256-bit encryption [ElectionBuddy](http://capterra.com/p/235336/ElectionBuddy/) streamlines the election process and ensures integrity with multi-platform voting, 256-bit encryption for voters’ security, and anonymous voting capabilities. It facilitates secure voting in various elections, votes, and polls—from board elections, acclamations, and membership polls to budget approvals. ElectionBuddy supports multiple voting systems, including first past the post (FPTP), single transferable vote (STV), preferential ballot, cumulative voting, scored voting, referendums, rating scales, or approval voting. The tool lets you customize ballots, personalize notices for emails, text messages, or letters, and schedule reminders for voting. ElectionBuddy enables you to integrate voters’ statistics with third-party applications, including Gmail, Campaign Monitor, Mailchimp, Microsoft Excel, member management systems, and CRM tools. It also sends notifications about bounced emails, allowing you to update your voter lists.  ElectionBuddy secures voters’ identities by creating one-time-use personal voting keys. It asks voters to confirm their identity using a secondary password or phone-based verification. The tool staffs a neutral third party to ensure fairness and resolve election challenges. It also secures the confidentiality of voting choices while keeping the results hidden until the end of the election for voter anonymity. Users can visualize election results using pie charts, summaries, and bar graphs. This web-based tool offers customer support via live chat and a knowledge base. _In order to present the most up-to-date information, the product cards below show real-time ratings. Please note that this means the ratings value in the product card may not reflect the ratings value at the time of analysis._ Best functionality #### Key Features - Online voting - Voter authentication - Phone voting - Ballot over email - Nominations - Printed ballots #### Trial/Free Version - Free Trial - Free Version #### Cost to upgrade: $29 up to 350 votes #### Device Compatibilty #### Screenshots _Voting details in_ [_ElectionBuddy_](https://www.capterra.com/p/235336/ElectionBuddy/) \* Analysis Accurate as of September 2022 ## 2\. Vevox: Use word cloud polls to crowdsource ideas The online polling software, [Vevox](https://www.capterra.com/p/185114/Vevox/), allows users to create polls in varied formats, such as multiple choice, numeric, ratings, and text polls. It furnishes live voting as an interactive tool to get instant feedback and draw data-driven insights. Vevox’s live questions-and-answers (Q&A) tool allows you to receive questions, comments, votes, and feedback from the audience. The moderation and management feature provides complete control over the Q&A board and helps facilitators preview, classify, and review all received messages. The tool comes with a word cloud polls feature that crowdsources ideas on a particular topic and visualizes audience responses in a colorful display. Vevox also lets you use profanity moderation on all the polls to automatically filter profane or inappropriate words. It enables you to measure and analyze engagement and participation with the help of a dashboard that runs polls and displays participation levels in real time. Using the anonymous feedback capability, you can invite uninhibited questions from the audience and increase participation.  The tool offers customer support via phone, email, and chat. This cloud-based solution also has a mobile app for Android and iOS users. #### Key Features - Online polling - Online voting - Live results sharing - Phone voting - Survey/poll management - Phone polling #### Trial/Free Version - Free Trial - Free Version #### Cost to upgrade: $10.95 per month, billed annually #### Device Compatibilty #### Screenshots _Word cloud polling in_ [_Vevox_](https://www.capterra.com/p/185114/Vevox/) \* Analysis Accurate as of September 2022 ## 3\. VoxVote: Add images to your questions [VoxVote](https://www.capterra.com/p/150554/VoxVote/) is a multilingual audience response system that helps businesses create custom quizzes, surveys, and polls. You can also gather feedback, gain insights, and view audience responses in real time. It lets you create your own questions and interact with an unlimited audience. This tool targets students (MOOC - Massive Open Online Courses), attendees in conferences or any other person in an audience, indoor or outdoor. The tool includes a range of audience response collection and data analysis tools such as custom questions with options for multiple voting, single voting, frequency reporting, and weighted averages. Using the Q&A message module, you can invite questions from your audience, reply to each question, and select them to be displayed on the live full screen display.  VoxVote also supports open answers with WordCloud reporting and question videos or images—upload an image with your question to make them visually appealing and easy to comprehend for the audience. It lets facilitators display voting results instantly using graphic charts. This voting software offers customer support via call, email, and a knowledge base. VoxVote has a mobile application for both Android and iOS devices. #### Key Features - Phone voting - Polls/voting - Nominations - Online voting - Online polling - Feedback management #### Trial/Free Version - Free Trial - Free Version #### Cost to upgrade: $131.39 with VAT #### Device Compatibilty #### Screenshots _Word cloud polling in_ [_VoxVote_](https://www.capterra.com/p/150554/VoxVote/) \* Analysis Accurate as of September 2022 ## How to choose the best voting software There’s a wide selection of tools that can help conduct secure and fair elections. The key is determining which of these tools are the right fit for your team. When choosing tools: - **Consider the security policy**: Every voting solution needs robust strong security policies to prevent vulnerabilities such as hacking, intrusion, and manipulation. Some tools use patented security architecture and 256-bit encryption to secure the votes as well as voter information. Features such as anonymous voting and end-to-end verifiability can also help face such security challenges. - **Check tracking and reporting features:** Once you have shortlisted some voting solutions, check whether their tracking and reporting tools align with your requirements. Is there a real-time votes/voters tracking option? Will you be able to visualize the results? Some software enables users to track click rates and the exact moment a vote is processed.  - **Analyze voter authentication tools:** Voter authentication is important to prevent false registration, voter impersonation, duplicate voting, misuse of absentee ballots, and ballot petition fraud. Therefore, analyze the voters’ identity authentication tools—such as single sign-on, two-factor authentication, mobile-based password confirmations, biometrics, and facial recognition—embedded in your shortlisted software. - **Look for social media integration:** Social media platforms increase awareness about elections and help users consume political news, track events, and follow election candidates. Your selected voting software should integrate with social media platforms, enabling you to host online campaigns or polls, create voter awareness, engage voters by asking them to share pictures, tag people, share their opinions, and more. ## Common questions to ask when choosing free voting software These are some common questions that you can ask vendors before selecting a free voting software solution for your business: What are the limitations of the free tool? Typically, voting software vendors apply certain limitations on free versions, such as number of ballots, votes, reminders, and security features. Check if your selected tool has any limitations and make sure you can work with them. Does the free tool support mobile voting? The ability to cast votes from mobile devices maximize participation, increase response rates, ensure voters’ privacy and security, and improve vote management. You should always consider a tool that supports mobile voting. Does the software facilitate sharing live results? Voting software not only helps you create and conduct polls but also allows you to share results with the audience in real time. Consider a free tool that offers multiple ways to share live results with respondents, including email or text messages and customized links. ## Capterra's 2026 Software Buying Trends Report ### Download our 2026 Software Buying Trends Report to see how successful software adopters avoid disappointment and how your business can, too. * * * ## How did we choose these products? We didn’t—you did.  To find your ideal software match, you need information you can trust so you can save time, stay on budget, and focus more energy on growing your business. It’s why we vet and verify all our user reviews and recommend only the tools endorsed by people like you. In other words, our product recommendations are never bought or sold, or based on the opinion of a single individual—they’re chosen by your peers, reflecting the views and experiences of our independent base of software reviewers. ​​At Capterra, we objectively select and rank products based on a methodology developed by our research team. Some vendors pay us when they receive web traffic, but this has no influence on our methodology. To be considered for this list, products had to: 1. Have at least 20 unique product reviews published on Capterra within the past two years, with an average rating of 3.0 or higher (as of September 08, 2022). We selected the three products with the highest ratings to feature in this article. 2. Offer a free, stand-alone version of the software—not a trial version where you have to purchase after a certain amount of time to get the full experience.  3. Meet our definition of [voting software](https://www.capterra.com/voting-software/s/free/): _“Voting software lets organizations remotely manage elections and allows voters to cast ballots from any location and device.”_ The “best functionality” tool is identified based on the highest user ratings for functionality that a vendor received based on publicly available reviews as of September 08, 2022. **Disclaimer:** We conducted this analysis based on reviews and ratings data as of September 8, 2022. In order to present the most up-to-date information, the product cards show real-time ratings. Please note that this means the ratings value in the product card may not reflect the ratings value at the time of analysis. Product research for this article was contributed by [Himanshi Arora](https://www.capterra.com/resources/author/himanshi-arora/). * * * Looking for Voting software?Check out Capterra's list of the [best Voting software](https://www.capterra.com/voting-software/) solutions. ### Was this article helpful? * * * ## About the Author [### Barkha Bali](https://www.capterra.com/resources/author/bbali/) Barkha Bali is a writer at Capterra. 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